Peter Fraser wrote:
If you install a new 3.9 system, and enable X windows
(The only package I installed was emacs)
Create a new userid with ksh as its shell
and sign on though X.
~/.profile does not get executed
Nor does ~/.profile get executed then a
new xterm is created using the left click
menu in the background.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/
I expect this related to my earlier messages
about .profile and ksh.
Got me, I see you have asked a lot of questions, often in the tone
of a remarkable discovery that most of us already knew about. A
little time doing some research on your own will be far more
educational. For that reason, I deleted the rest of the link above.
The answer to your quest..er..statement is very much in there.
Start reading.
Nick.